http://www.centralillinoisnewscenter.com/news/local/70325557.html
About 2:40 p.m. on Tuesday, authorities apprehended 28–year–old Aaron Cook. He was found under a pile of boxes on Spitznagel Street in Peoria wearing sweatpants.. not a jail uniform.The other inmate is still at large.
According to the Peoria County Sheriff, 44–year–old James Fuller and 28–year–old Aaron Cook escaped through the roof of the jail after creating a hole in the ceiling using homemade instruments.
The sheriff says it was likely a hole they created over a period of time as they had to dig through two layers of cinder blocks.
The jail pod where they were held was single person cells, so the sheriff says it is possible one inmate hid in another cell just before lockdown.
"We're interviewing all the inmates that were on that pod, plus we've called back into work everyone that worked second shift yesterday, third shift last night and day shift today," said Sheriff McCoy.
Authorities say the inmates used a number of bed sheets tied together to get down from the roof.
Aaron Cook, the man captured in Peoria, was being held on charges of theft, obstructing justice and aggravated battery of a child.
James Fuller, who is still at large, has been jailed here since March of 2008 and was arrested on multiple counts of rape and home invasion.
A man fitting Fuller's description allegedly broke into a home on Tracey Street in Peoria and stole a green Toyota highlander with Colorado license plates 591–BXA.
This jail is only 8 miles from my house, and the criminal that is still at large is "bad, bad news" according to my friend who works in the state crime lab.
Something about it just seems 'off' to me...
